As timeless explorers, we are constantly looking for design pieces belonging to the highest Italian artisan tradition.
That’s why, by presenting the objects we discovered by going around or made especially for you, we were thrilled by the idea of being able to tell you the STORIES behind them: unexpected, original, unique because Italians and we Italians, you know, things we always do them our way.
In this section we will reveal the secrets of some designers, we will let the protagonists speak directly, we will take you to the most hidden and precious corners of our country.
Branco & Preto was the name of an architecture and design shop opened in 1952 in São Paulo. Open until 1970, the store can be defined as one of the forerunners of interior architecture and modern furniture in Brazil. The architects Miguel Forte, Jacob Ruchti,
One of the leading British interior designers in the 1920s and 1930s, Syrie Maugham is best known for being the first to decorate her living room completely in white. Maugham’s interiors never lacked white paint, white satin, mirrors and white velvet lampshades. While all the
Provence, France. Villa Aziyadé was conceived by a Swiss architect in 1894 as a small marabout-shaped pavilion, known for its distinctive domed roof design in the manner of a sanctuary. Intended as a country retreat, not as a sprawling villa, the architect designed a labyrinthine
AT THE HOUSE OF NICOLA DEL ROSCIO where the experimental aesthetics of the artist CY Twombly permeates the space with a witty blend of prosaic objects and eighteenth-century grandeur. Nicola del Roscio’s house is a 17th century hunting lodge built by a cardinal on the
Fascinated by the life and work of the Milanese designer, who passed away in 2017, we had the opportunity to imagine an interview with her, filtered by the memories and words of her daughter Elisabetta. Where does the combination of creativity and functionality that uniquely
Site Transitorie is a work of art, immersed in the Sienese clay between the localities of Leonina and Mucigliani, in the municipality of Asciano, an ancient Etruscan center in the province of Siena. In 1993 the French artist Jean-Paul Philippe created this stone sculpture, consisting
The American-born artist Namsal Siedlecki lives in Seggiano, an Italian town of nearly a thousand inhabitants in Val d’Orcia in Tuscany. The village, one of the most peaceful and fascinating in the Monte Amiata area, hosts among other things “The Garden of Daniel Spoerri”: an
On the occasion of the centenary of Gabriella Crespi’s birth, an exhibition dedicated to the great Milanese artist and designer will open in Turin on May 27th. Organized in collaboration with the National Automobile Museum and the Crespi Archive, the exhibition was conceived as an
His first work dates back to 2015. He himself says that it took a long time to get there. Immediately after high school, in fact, in 2008, he began working as a set-up in some contemporary art galleries, foundations and museums in the city of
